Wind gusts knocked down trees and branches throughout the Erie area on Sunday.

Breezy conditions were expected to continue today, with snow also likely in the region.

Emergency dispatchers in the area reported numerous trees down Sunday.

An Erie County 911 supervisor said there were wires and trees down throughout the county Sunday morning. The call that led firefighters to a blaze at Lake Erie Dental on Peach Street originally came in as a report of a pole and wires down, the dispatcher said.

A woman called the Erie Times-News to report that two trees crashed on her friend's house on Cumberland Road in Harborcreek Township.

An East County dispatcher, along with officials in Crawford and Warren counties, said they'd all received reports of downed trees.

The Crawford County dispatcher said most of the calls came Sunday morning, with a few in the afternoon.

An official with the National Weather Service in Cleveland said the wind gusts recorded at Erie International Airport peaked at 59 mph on Sunday at 5:19 a.m. By late morning the strongest winds had moved to the east, he said.

Wind gusts and heavy snow are expected as the weather service issued a lake-effect snow warning through Wednesday morning.

The snow warning starts at 10 a.m. and lasts until 7 a.m. Wednesday. The weather service is expecting 10 to 20 inches of accumulation in that period.

Winds are expected from the west at 10 to 20 miles per hour with gusts up to 35 miles per hour close to Lake Erie. Temperatures are expected to dip down as low as 4 degrees, with a high near 20 degrees.

The wind chill is expected to be as low as minus 9 degrees.

Weather service officials warn motorists that driving conditions will be "slow and hazardous" with visibility down to a quarter-mile or less at times.